“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
"“…how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”
"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it."\
"An arrow sang in the air, like a huge hornet; it struck old Appleyard between the shoulder-blades, and pierced him clean through, and he fell forward on his face among the cabbages. A black arrow, Master Dick, is the seal of our abbey; it showed you who wrote the bill.
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
"“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” Prolog: Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it. The Maid’s Tragedy: Beaumont and Fletcher Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in …